The 'gay weddg ke' dilemma: when relig eedom and LGBTI rights tersect

Contents:

• GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE
• US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB
• SUPREME COURT CIS COLORADO GAY WEDDG KE SE: A TIMELE OF EVENTS
• BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG: 'I DON'T DISCRIMATE'
• OPN: THE SLEEPER ISSUE THE ‘GAY WEDDG KE’ NTROVERSY
• 'GAY KE' ROW: WHAT IS THE DISPUTE ABOUT?
• GAY WEDDG KE NTROVERSY HEADS TO SUPREME COURT
• ‘GAY KE’ ROW: MAN LOS SEVEN-YEAR BATTLE AGAST BELFAST BAKERY
• I’VE CHANGED MY MD ON THE GAY KE ROW. HERE’S WHY
• SUPREME URT SIS WH BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE GAY WEDDG KE

GAY WEDDG KE LG REAFFIRMS THAT BS N’T DISCRIMATE

Some people might dismiss the prcipl at stake the Masterpiece Cakhop se by argug that a gay uple n simply purchase their ke elsewhere. If a pany n refe to sell weddg k to a gay uple on the basis of relig nvictns, n a rtrant also then refe to serve food to a divorcée or an unmarried uple wh a child?

Image source, RtersImage ptn, Jack Phillips has temporarily stopped makg weddg kThe US Supreme Court has led favour of a baker Colorado who refed to make a weddg ke for a gay Colorado state urt had found that baker Jack Phillips' cisn to turn away David Mulls and Charlie Craig 2012 was unlawful the Supreme Court led on Monday a 7-2 vote that that cisn had vlated Mr Phillips' rights. The nservative Christian ced his relig beliefs refg rights groups feared a lg agast the uple uld set a precent for treatg gay marriag differently om heterosexual the Supreme Court's verdict stead foc specifilly on Mr Phillips' se. The cisn do not state that florists, photographers, or other servic n now refe to work wh gay lg three years after the Supreme Court ma same-sex marriage the law of the land s landmark Obergefell v Hodg source, Getty ImagImage ptn, David Mulls (left) and Charlie Craig wanted a weddg ke to celebrate their planned marriageWhat did Monday's lg say?

Jtice Anthony Kennedy wrote that while Colorado law "n protect gay persons acquirg products and servic... A siar 'gay ke' row is ongog Northern Ireland.

US SUPREME COURT BACKS COLORADO BAKER'S GAY WEDDG KE SNUB

The Supreme Court Belfast has yet to release an opn on a lower urt lg that found the owners of a bakery discrimated agast a gay activist for refg to bake a ke wh the slogan "Support Gay Marriage" row began May 2014, when gay activist Gareth Lee placed an orr for a ke wh the gay marriage days later, the Christian-owned Ashers bakery ncelled the orr sayg "would ntradict their relig beliefs".

Cisn to take on the se reflected renewed energy among the urt's nservative jtic, whose ranks have recently been bolstered by the addn of Jtice Neil Gorsuch to the high Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakhop Lakewood, Colo., cled to make a ke for the weddg celebratn of two gay men 2012. COLORADO BAKER RECEIVES DEATH THREATS AND HATE FOR REFUSING TO MAKE GAY WEDDING CAKEPhillips was orred to change s pany polici as well as offer “prehensive staff trag” to employe.

SUPREME COURT IS IN SESSION WITH GORSUCH ON BOARD, GAY WEDDING CAKE CASE ON DECK“We are askg the U. "The laws and the Constutn n, and some stanc mt, protect gay persons and gay upl the exercise of their civil rights, but relig and philosophil objectns to gay marriage are protected views and some stanc protected forms of exprsn, " the Court said s cisn. "While is unexceptnal that Colorado law n protect gay persons acquirg products and servic on the same terms and ndns as are offered to other members of the public, the law mt be applied a manner that is ntral toward relign.

SUPREME COURT CIS COLORADO GAY WEDDG KE SE: A TIMELE OF EVENTS

"In s cisn, the Supreme Court did not ci whether a bs has the right to refe to serve gay and lbian people Bar Gsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, two of the Court's more liberal jtic, Associated Prs ntributed to this report. Supreme Court victory over his refal to make a weddg ke for a gay uple on Thursday lost his appeal of a lg a separate se that he vlated a state anti-discrimatn law by not makg a ke to celebrate a genr Colorado Court of Appeals agreed wh a trial judge that Masterpiece Cakhop and the bakery's owner, Jack Phillips, vlated Autumn Srda's rights by nyg her service bee of her inty as a transgenr woman. Supreme Court 2017 agreed to hear Phillips’ challenge to the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn's ncln he discrimated agast a gay uple for whom he had refed to make a weddg Supreme Court 2018 led Phillips' favor but on narrow grounds that stopped short of creatg a ee speech exemptn to anti-discrimatn laws, fdg the missn was hostile toward Phillips’ Christian 6-3 nservative majory urt December heard arguments a siar se volvg Alliance Defendg Freedom client Lorie Smh, a Christian web signer who argu she has a right to refe to provi servic for same-sex se is Srda v.

Supreme Court leans toward web signer wh anti-gay marriage stanceColorado baker se of Supreme Court su state over 'persecutn'U. Supreme Court backs Christian baker who rebuffed gay upleOur Standards: The Thomson Rters Tst Raymond reports on the feral judiciary and ligatn.

"The narrow Supreme Court lg lg Phillips’ se applied to the specific facts of his se only and gave ltle ht as to how the urt might ci future s volvg florists, bakers, photographers and other bs owners who have ced relig and ee-speech objectns when refg to serve gay and lbian ctomers the wake of the Supreme Court's 2015 same-sex marriage cisn. Phillips, a Christian baker who refed to create a weddg ke for a gay uple who planned to marry Massachetts but celebrate their unn urt’s opn rejects arguments that forcg Phillips to supply a ke to Charlie Craig and David Mulls vlated Phillips’ eedom of relign or his 1st Amendment right agast beg pelled to nvey a “celebratory” msage he don’t believe to reach those qutns, the urt had to reject another legal claim by Phillips that hasn’t received enough attentn: that refg to provi the ke, he wasn’t engagg anti-gay discrimatn. ” In other words, celibate gays who endorsed the group’s Christian moral theology were wele spe their sexual orientatn.

BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG: 'I DON'T DISCRIMATE'

Wrg for the urt, Jtice Ruth Bar Gsburg rejected that argument, notg that gay rights s, the urt had “cled to distguish between stat and nduct.

”To a lot of gay rights supporters, ’s self-evint that a refal to bake a ke for a same-sex weddg is discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn.

) So seems that bakers, weddg photographers and other merchants who live jurisdictns that prohib discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn won’t be able to argue that “we’re not anti-gay, we’re jt anti-gay-marriage. The European Court of Human Rights has dismissed a legal challenge a long-nng dispute known as the "gay ke" se, lg the actn ECHR is the latt urt to have s say the long-nng all started 2014, when a bakery Northern Ireland refed to make a ke wh a slogan supportg same-sex 's a look at how the se reached Strasbourg:What about the bakery? The bakery me to wir promence July 2014 when emerged that had cled an orr s Belfast branch om gay rights activist Gareth Lee.

OPN: THE SLEEPER ISSUE THE ‘GAY WEDDG KE’ NTROVERSY

He had wanted them to make a ke that clud a slogan that said "support gay marriage" along wh a picture of Bert and Ernie om Same Street, and the logo of the Queerspace the time, same-sex marriage was still illegal Northern Ireland, but the law has sce changed and same-sex weddgs have been takg place sce Febary ke was beg missned for a civic event Bangor, County Down, to mark Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and at the bakery passed the orr to s head office, which nsired to be "at odds" wh their beliefs. Durg the heargs, a lawyer for the bakery argued the issue was "the ke, not the ctomer" of the bakers, Karen McArthur, said she did not know Mr Lee was gay and would not have mattered as they would not have been prepared to make a ke wh a pro-same-sex marriage slogan for anyone.

In October 2016, the owners of the bakery lost their appeal agast the lg that their refal to make a "gay ke" was discrimatory. A state civil rights missn sanctned Phillips after a formal plat om the gay uple. "It's about the rights of gay people to receive equal service bs and not be aaid of beg turned away bee of who they are.

'GAY KE' ROW: WHAT IS THE DISPUTE ABOUT?

"I serve everybody that : gay, straight, Catholic, Mlim, atheist.

GAY WEDDG KE NTROVERSY HEADS TO SUPREME COURT

(Alliance Defendg Freedom)The urt on Tuday will exame whether applyg Colorado's public acmodatns law to pel the lol baker to create mercial "exprsn" vlat his nstutnally protected Christian beliefs about wadg aga to the culture wars, the jtic will have to nont recent cisns on both gay rights and relig liberty: a 2015 landmark opn legalizg same-sex marriage natnwi and a separate 2014 cisn affirmg the right of some pani to act on their owner's fah by refg to provi ntraceptn to s workers.

' — Jack Phillips Chief Jtice John Roberts predicted the current legal dilemma his gay marriage dissent: "Hard qutns arise when people of fah exercise relign ways that may be seen to nflict wh the new right to same-sex marriage. "The soft-spoken Phillips adds that like other artists, he has turned away ke requts for a variety of reasons: baked goods wh profany or obscene imag, racial stereotyp, even those that he says would disparage homosexuals.

A man has lost a seven-year legal battle agast a Belfast bakery that refed to make him a ke emblazoned wh the msage “support gay marriage” as the European urt of human rights led that his claim was admissible, promptg disappotment om gay rights Thursday the ECHR, by a majory cisn, said would not rensir the cisn of the UK supreme urt, which had overturned a £500 damag award imposed on Ashers bakery, which is n by evangelil refed to produce the ke, featurg the Same Street puppets Bert and Ernie, 2014 for Gareth Lee, who was a supporter of the mpaign to legalise same-sex marriage Northern Ireland.

‘GAY KE’ ROW: MAN LOS SEVEN-YEAR BATTLE AGAST BELFAST BAKERY

Same-sex marriage was legalised Northern Ireland last the supreme urt judgment 2018, after s first hearg Northern Ireland, a Belfast unty urt and a urt of appeal had led that the pany discrimated agast Lee, who is gay, on the grounds of sexual ECHR said the claim was admissible bee the applint had not exprsly voked his rights unr the European nventn on human rights at any pot the domtic proceedgs and had relied solely on domtic said: “The supreme urt found on the facts of the se that the applint was not treated differently on acunt of his real or perceived sexual orientatn, but rather that the refal to supply the ke was bee of the fendants’ relig objectn to gay marriage.

“What was prcipally at issue, therefore, was not the effect on the applint’s private life or his eedom to hold or exprs his opns or beliefs, but rather whether Ashers bakery was required to produce a ke exprsg the applint’s polil support for gay marriage. Its puty director, Daniel Holr, said the ECHR’S lg on admissibily left dividuals and anisatns mpaigng on gay rights “vulnerable to a mercial bs refg to provi servic like prtg posters, leaflets, settg up webs etc, through claimg an exemptn to non-discrimatn laws on the basis of ‘’s not you ’s your msage’. ”The ECHR said balancg the rights of Lee and those of the bakery owners, Daniel and Amy McArthur, was “a matter of great import and sensivy to both LGBTIQ muni and to fah muni”, particularly Northern Calvert, a spokperson for the Christian Instute, which backed the McArthurs, lled the cisn good news for ee speech, addg: “It protects gay bs owners om beg forced to promote views they don’t share, jt as much as protects Christian bs owners.

I’VE CHANGED MY MD ON THE GAY KE ROW. HERE’S WHY

Gay-Weddg Cake Controversy: Freedom Extends to Bakeri | Natnal Review. Colorado Civil Rights Commissn—the “gay weddg ke” se—loomed as a blockbter, a major step toward rolvg nflicts between relig eedom and anti-discrimatn laws protectg LGBT people general and same-sex married upl someone left the khop the Monday, the Supreme Court produced the melted remnant. “The first is the thory of a state … to protect the rights and digny of gay persons who are, or wish to be, married”; the send is “the right of all persons to exercise fundamental eedoms unr the First Amendment.

Kennedy found no problem wh civil-rights statut protectg gays and lbians; the opn repeated long-tablished relign that relig scpl do not necsarily overe civil-rights laws. Jack asked them to create k pictg gay upl wh a cross-out mark, and Bible vers nouncg homosexualy. Unr a proper civil-rights law, bs nnot discrimate agast a ctomer bee of his or her race, or relign, or sexual orientatn; bs, however, aren’t bound by the First Amendment and n reject msag—as long as they would reject the same msage om any missn below found that Masterpiece had nied a weddg ke to Craig and Mulls bee they are gay.

Phillips nied service to Craig and Mulls bee they are gay.

SUPREME URT SIS WH BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE GAY WEDDG KE

The other bakers would not bake an anti-gay ke for anyone of any race, creed, lor, or sexual orientatn, she said.